Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
has a B.Sc. (1982) and an M.Sc. (1984) in
Mathematics
from
PUC-Rio,
the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,
and a D.Sc. (1992) in Mathematics
from
IMPA.
He is a Full Researcher at IMPA and a member of the Visgraf laboratory. He was a member of Tecgraf, the Computer Graphics Technology Group of PUC-Rio, for over 20 years. He has collaborated with Visgraf and Tecgraf since their creation.
Before joining IMPA in 2001, he was an Associate Researcher at LNCC, which he joined in 1997, after spending one year there as a visiting researcher supported by a FAPERJ fellowship. Before that, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Computer Systems Group of the Computer Science Department at the University of Waterloo in 1995.
He was invited plenary speaker at SCAN 2002 and at SIBGRAPI 2017.
His current research interests include computational mathematics, geometric modeling, and interval methods in computer graphics, specially applications of affine arithmetic.
He is also interested in programming languages
and is one of the
designers
of the
Lua
language.
Lua was awarded the first prize in the
II Compaq Award for
Research and Development in Computer Science,
in 1997,
and the
Front Line Award 2011
from the
Game Developers Magazine.
Lua featured in
HOPL III,
the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference,
in 2007.
Lua featured in the
"Inovanças – Creations Brazilian style"
exhibition at
the
Museum of Tomorrow in Rio, in 2017.
Watch the
video.
In 2022,
Lua received the
Pedro Ernesto Medal,
the highest decoration given by the city of Rio de Janeiro.